And has anybody ever heard of Molloy College and Loma Linda College? These schools, which specialize in the health sciences, produce grads with annual salary of $64,000 and $64,600 respectively, which handily beat the starting wages of grads at UCLA, Stanford and the University of Notre Dame.

When you look at the list of the schools with the highest intro salary, many of the institutions aren't prestigious, but they do produce a lot engineers and health professionals.

Bottom Line:

You don't have to attend a top university to earn a great salary. What you major in can be even more important than where you get that degree.